Title: Working with the clipboard
Question: How to get a delphi form as bitmap and copy it into the clipboard ?
How to copy the whole screen into the clipboard ?
Answer:
This example uses an image, a button, and a shape component on a form.
When the user clicks the button, an image of the form is stored in the
FormImage variable and copied to the Clipboard. Then image of the form
in then copied back to the image component, producing an interesting
result, especially if the button is clicked multiple times.
procedure TForm1.Button1Click(Sender: TObject);
var
FormImage: TBitmap;
begin
FormImage := GetFormImage;
try
Clipboard.Assign(FormImage);
Image1.Picture.Assign(Clipboard);
finally
FormImage.Free;
end;
end;
procedure TForm1.FormCreate(Sender: TObject);
begin
Shape1.Shape := stEllipse;
Shape1.Brush.Color := clLime;
Image1.Stretch := True;
end;
The following copy copies the whole screen into the clipboard:
procedure CopyScreenToClipboard;
var dx,dy : integer;
hSourcDC,hDestDC,
hBM, hbmOld : THandle;
begin
dx := screen.width;
dy := screen.height;
hSourcDC := CreateDC('DISPLAY',nil,nil,nil);
hDestDC := CreateCompatibleDC(hSourcDC);
hBM := CreateCompatibleBitmap(hSourcDC, dx, dy);
hbmold:= SelectObject(hDestDC, hBM);
BitBlt(hDestDC, 0, 0, dx, dy, hSourcDC, 0, 0, SRCCopy);
OpenClipBoard(form1.handle);
EmptyClipBoard;
SetClipBoardData(CF_Bitmap, hBM);
CloseClipBoard;
SelectObject(hDestDC,hbmold);
DeleteObject(hbm);
DeleteDC(hDestDC);
DeleteDC(hSourcDC);
end;